Sermon Archive (Page 23)

Here you can read and hear recent sermons from our church.

“To Laugh the Last Laugh”

Mark 5:21-43             {Prayer}             King Solomon starts Ecclesiastes 3 saying that “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.”  In verse four he says there is “a time to weep and a time to laugh.”  There is a time to mourn, to complain, to shed tears, to lament…

“Always Loving but Loving Uniquely”

Luke 15:11-32 {Prayer}             Children, children are truly a gift from God.  Even in the midst of a temper tantrum, the sassiness, or a full-blown teenage attitude, even though we may think we are being punished for the way we adults treated our parents when we were their age … despite all that … children…

“Sparing the Reaping”

Revelation 14:14-20 {Prayer}             Our reading from Revelation 14 is one which sounds like it could produce the script for a good horror movie and very well may be one of the reasons why someone may not want to read the book of Revelation.  I’m not a fan of horror movies myself as there is…

“Mystery of the Trinity”

John 3:1-17 {Prayer}             Some things, no matter how much time is spent on studying and research … some things, some things are just a mystery.  Take for example the Kryptos.  Kryptos is a mysterious encrypted sculpture which sits right outside the headquarters of the CIA in Langley, Virginia. So mysterious this is, not even…

“Is Jesus Leaving Good?”

John 16:5-15 {Prayer}             Betrayal … Denial … Hatred … Harassment … Grief.             These five words … these five words could easily describe the plot line of really any daytime soap opera.              These five words … they can also describe the emotional status of the disciples.  Let me explain.             Before the ascension…

“Stuck in the Middle”

Acts 1:1-11 {Prayer}             To quote a well-known commercial … “How do you eat an Oreo cookie?”             I know, that sounds pretty random, but you should know by now that my mind sometimes comes up with some weird ideas.  As I was reading through our text from Acts 1, as well as some other…

“Jesus as Friend?”

John 15:9-17 {Prayer}             Have you ever been asked, especially by someone who may not be connected to a church or who may not even be a Christian … “Why are you doing that?”              Something similar happened at the Easter Egg Hunt this year.  One of the little ones there was so excited to…

“Pruning Hurts”

John 15:1-8 {Prayer}             Whenever I have gone away on a youth trip, mission trip, or a hunting trip … as much as I look forward to them and enjoy myself on them … there is also this voice in the back of my head which says, “Don’t call home.”  Now it’s not that I…

“Living for Others”

1 John 3:16-18 {Prayer}             Have you ever tried to fit a square peg into a round hole?  Pretty much impossible right?  In order to do it there has to be some major alterations.             In the one of my favorite movies, one which may get a lot of dad jokes developed from being that…